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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion,
where have these affections and experiences their seat?
Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing
the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for
this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might
be either a blend or a distinct formf due to the blending.
And what applies to the affections applies also to whatsoever
acts, physical or mental, spring from them.
We have, therefore, to examine discursive-reason and the ordinary
mental action upon objects of sense, and enquire whether these
have the one seat with the affections and experiences, or perhaps
sometimes the one seat, sometimes another.
And we must consider also our acts of Intellection, their mode
and their seat.
And this very examining principle, which investigates and decides
in these matters, must be brought to light.
Firstly, what is the seat of Sense-Perception? This is the
obvious beginning since the affections and experiences either are
sensations of some kind or at least never occur apart from
sensation.
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